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## Name
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-audio - system audio device
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+audio - system audio devices
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## Description
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-The `/dev/audio` character device file exposes the audio output device of the system. As of now, this is an output-only device and reading it has no effect. To get the audio device to play audio, PCM samples need to be written to `/dev/audio` as a series of "frames" (in MPEG terminology) or multi-channel samples with the following format:
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+`/dev/audio` is the directory for the system audio devices. Currently, there are only output devices, so every device file in the directory is an output channel. These channels are numbered, with `/dev/audio/0` being the first channel of the first device. To get the audio device to play audio, PCM samples need to be written to it as a series of "frames" (in MPEG terminology) or multi-channel samples with the following format:
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@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ Note that for convenience, the audio device may not block the call to `write` an
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* `SOUNDCARD_IOCTL_GET_SAMPLE_RATE`: Passes the current device sample rate (in samples per second) into a provided `u16*` (16-bit unsigned integer pointer).
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* `SOUNDCARD_IOCTL_SET_SAMPLE_RATE`: Sets the sample rate of the underlying hardware from a provided 16-bit unsigned integer. Note that not all sound cards support all sample rate and the actually achieved sample rate should be checked with the GET_SAMPLE_RATE ioctl.
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+## See also
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+* [Audio-subsystem](help://man/7/Audio-subsystem)
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